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...slurping of homemade pasta, the soft pop of a cork from a bottle of Pinot Grigio and the lilt of Italian conversation are not typically heard off the coast of West Sumatra. But then the coast of West Sumatra is not, as a rule, home to people like Nanni Casalegno. The 62-year-old Italian quit his job and left his home in Turin in 1991, after finding his heaven on earth in Indonesia. In the 15 years since, the former insurance broker and his wife, Federica, have turned 0.9 km of pristine beach on the remote island of Cubadak...
...basement had been decorated with "One Tough Grandma" bumper stickers, lawn signs and T-shirts from the independent gubernatorial campaign of McClellan's mother, Texas Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn. In her folksy lilt, Strayhorn had recorded a farewell greeting in which she said she had an urgent assignment...
Despite her non-glamour looks, Mary captivates Rhage. From her first words, Rhage is consumed by her presence: “The musical lilt of her voice, the rhythm of her speech, the sound of her words, it all spread through him, calming him, comforting him.” This drive pushes Rhage toward Mary, and the two begin an intense, yet somehow romantic, affair...
Hitchcockian: that adjective instantly conjures dark ballads sung with a puckish lilt. The darkness--the evil that befalls beautiful people--infuses the best of the 14 films in this handsome DVD set: Shadow of a Doubt, Vertigo, Psycho, The Birds. (The package also includes nifty docs on the making of the last two films.) Viewers saw the director's impish side as host of the TV series Alfred Hitchcock Presents, the first season of which is now available in a separate set. That makes for a two-box festival of Hitch--some ephemeral, most of it seminal...
...inland town of Ubud is known as the cultural hub of Bali. But before you picture a tranquil artists' community, where the reverent silence of masters at work is broken only by tropical birdsong and the lilt of a distant gamelan, let us put you straight. Ubud is a hot and raucous place?and you're more likely to run into T-shirt hawkers than artists. Visitors are also often struck by the uneven quality and random subject matter of the work on display. Many of the town's famous sculpture studios seem to prioritize commercial expedience over artistic tradition...